“We are meeting today because of a selfish man’s injured pride and the outrage of his supporters that he deliberately misinformed over the past two months and moved into action this morning,” Romney wrote in remarks he made before Trump in the Senate would have made. supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. “What happened here today was an uprising instigated by the President of the United States.”
He warned that “those who choose to continue to support his dangerous gambit by objecting to the results of a legitimate, democratic election will forever be subjected to an unprecedented attack on our democracy. They will be remembered. “For their role in this disgraceful episode in American history, it will be their legacy.”
Romney, who lost the 2012 presidential election, urged his fellow lawmakers to “proceed with the completion of the election, refrain from further objections and unanimously affirm the legitimacy of the presidential election.”
In the same video, he praised the crowd that violently broke into the Capitol, stole items from his rooms and posed for photos in the legislative rooms.
Romney joins several other members of the GOP who lamented the president’s handling of the day’s events. House Speaker Republican Liz Cheney said the president abused the trust of the American people and abused the trust of the people who supported him.